Re: Patch libtool for m4 cvs in mingw/msys

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi heromyth,

* heromyth wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:06:05PM CEST:
> heromyth wrote:
> >Recently I use Libtool CVS to compile M4 CVS in mingw/msys.I have 
> >configureed M4 like this:
> >    ../m4/configure -C --prefix=/usr --disable-nls --disable-shared
> >
> >I trace into libtool, and found it is because of $global_symbol_pipe 
> >which is always empty. I don't konw where I am wrong. 
> 
> Shit! I think I have found the answer to my question. I configure M4 use 
> this:
> 
> ../m4/configure -C --prefix=/mingw --disable-nls --disable-shared
> 
> And get the $global_symbol_pipe not empty. Its value is that:
> 
> global_symbol_pipe="sed -n -e 's/^.*[ 
> ]\\([ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\\)[     ][ 
> ]*_\\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\\)\\{0,1\\}\$/\\1 _\\2 \\2/p'"
> 
> What's wrong?? Exactly, there is a file named config.site in /etc. I 
> don't know why it exists. But after I deleted it, the firt command :
> 
> ../m4/configure -C --prefix=/usr --disable-nls --disable-shared
> 
> works. So there is no need to do this patch, just delete 
> /etc/config.site.

Who created /etc/config.site (resp. which software package contains the
one you had installed) and what are its contents?

Regards,
Ralf